Rust Job Trends in the South East

Rust
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 240 383
Rank change year-on-year -5 +143 -42
Permanent jobs citing Rust 37 33 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.26% 0.43% 0.024%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 1.65% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 28 9 4
10th Percentile £49,625 £56,850 £43,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £71,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £105,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% +95.35% -28.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £95,750 - £71,250
England median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -

All Programming Languages
South East

Rust falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,455 1,996 4,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.11% 25.86% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 1,405 4,018
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Rust job vacancy trend in the South East

Rust
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Rust in the South East

Rust
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -1 23 £80,000 +20.75% 8
Thames Valley +20 13 £62,500 -41.86% 5
Berkshire +10 13 £62,500 -43.18% 1
Surrey -28 1 £44,000 -41.33% 1
Rust
England

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) Apache Qpid
Cloud Services
1 25 (67.57%) AWS
2 23 (62.16%) Azure
3 22 (59.46%) GCP
4 4 (10.81%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) MQTT
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) GitLab
2 7 (18.92%) Git
3 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (70.27%) Software Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior
3 8 (21.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Rust Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Rust Software Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Python Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Graduate
7 1 (2.70%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) gRPC
2 2 (5.41%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.41%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (5.41%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Client/Server
1 13 (35.14%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) Software Engineering
2 19 (51.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (37.84%) Computer Science
3 14 (37.84%) Test Automation
4 13 (35.14%) Code Quality
4 13 (35.14%) System Testing
5 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
6 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
7 10 (27.03%) AI
7 10 (27.03%) DevSecOps
8 9 (24.32%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (24.32%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (24.32%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (24.32%) Microservices
8 9 (24.32%) Observability
8 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (24.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (21.62%) Software Delivery
9 8 (21.62%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (18.92%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 31 (83.78%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) C
2 14 (37.84%) C++
3 8 (21.62%) TypeScript
4 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Go
5 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (51.35%) Degree
2 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (40.54%) SC Cleared
4 14 (37.84%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) QA
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Hyper-V
1 13 (35.14%) KVM
1 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (32.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (24.32%) Ansible
2 9 (24.32%) Grafana
2 9 (24.32%) Prometheus
2 9 (24.32%) Terraform
3 5 (13.51%) Puppet
4 2 (5.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) VMware
2 4 (10.81%) Tenable
3 2 (5.41%) NVIDIA